Hi there,
Can you help diagnose why our backup duration has jumped from roughly 1 hour to roughly 8 hours without any changes being made to our application. I've attached two examples of the slow and fast log files.
Many thanks
Bobby
#42042 Backup duration jumped from roughly 1hour to roughly 8hours
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Environment Information
Joomla! version
5.2.5
PHP version
8.2
Akeeba Backup version
10.0.3
Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 07:39 CDT
Tuesday, 24 June 2025 07:07 CDT
Tuesday, 24 June 2025 07:39 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You are trying to back up a gigantic database table which you don't need to even include in the backup: #__acym_history. This table just includes the newsletter click history.
Go to Akeeba Backup. Make sure profile #1 is selected, if you have multiple profiles.
Click on Database Tables Exclusion.
Find the #__acym_history table and click the second icon from the left next to it, the one that has the tooltip "Do not backup its contents" when you hover over it. Make sure its background has turned yellow.
Now take a backup. It will be done in about 5 minutes instead of 8 hours.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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